At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.

Fractal zoom animation by Eric Bigas. No sound. 2006.This animation is a continuous zoom into a graph of a fractal mathematical function. It was drawn and animated entirely by interpolation of the function's parameters. No editing or image processing was